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BING.
(THE STORY OF A DOG)
[By TINDAL KING.]
PRETTY WEDDING AT CATHEDRAL
WELL-KNOWN LOCAL RESIDENT MARRIED
MR RR ROXBURGH-MISS
WELLS
The bride booked charming in beautiful dress of blue chiffon with what of fanu face and shoes to match, and cutie a bouquet of white chryshemums and orange bossom She was
Mr. B. D. Begg carried out the duties of best man.
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818-The following, taken: Ixom the London Daily Mirror of -28th September last, is interesting in view of the recent further slump in value of the pound sterling-a largo:i contributory cause of the increased rate of Hong Kong Exchange on London The article is sent you a showing that the present position was then forecasted in London, and for our cable services at this in the hope that these responsible critical time, will that news of this kind is of much more vital interest hero than reporta of, eg., homo sports results, and, accordingly sen to it that we are boiter served
was given away by Afr. James
es Ormiston, while Mrs Ormiston was mistron of honour. Whilst everyone was expecting The latter more ai dress of while very in value of the fovered satin with black hat and the opposito has been soen; no pound sterling after the elections, black satin shoes.
doubt dus to causes known in London (but no cabled to Hong Kong) over a month ago. It is barglys weck since dumping of goods in England was here cited as contributory cause of the pound's in the article is patent-especially further decline-yet the inference. in the last paragrap
The following is the article
ENORMOUS LEAP IN DUMP
**IMPORTS OF HOSIERY ELEVEN TIMES NORMAL AMOUNTS "PRESSING DANGER. -
M
Kaiser Wilhelm the Second in his cow famous order to a Colonial Governor referred to a certain pos session as the brightest jewel in his Crown, and it was in this delight
A very pretty wedding took plac | Strange yesterday afternoon at St. John's ful spot alter it had passed into the hands of Japan, to be returned Cathedral when Mr. Robert Risk- mond Roxburgh, well-known in subsequently to its rightful owners
Hong Kong and China, as repre- that Bing Arab aw the light of sentative of Mesers Thornycraft day. To paraphrase the old anying,
Co, Ltd. TLS married to Miss it's a wise dog that knowi its own
and Binge wisdom almost:
Beverley Wells of Vancouver.....
The Very for A. Swann ofcat, Lenne up to this standart But he
me up to this
sure whothee the fed at the ceremony. We never quite up privilege of bringing him into this world belonged to Cliffo, his mas tor's German police-dog, on to Tod from Canton City. He preferred to look upon the first-namal as his father, for his earliest recollections of being taken for walks were cer tainly with Cliffe and Bubbles (who wes his mother a bull terrier he had no doubts there at all) and not with Ted. The alternative he would have been prepared to accept, polyandry being a state of society.
After the ceremony at the Cathe considered by the most respectable dral, a reseption was held in the dogs as perfectly moral, but Ted's Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden nationality made this difficult if not where the happy couple were the quito impossible Telegenic in-repients of congratulations from fluence might secount for his tongue rumerous friends. Mr. Ormiston, ED GOODS. boing black, like Ted's, but it was in a happy speech, conveyed to Mr. another thing altogether to admit and Mrs. Rorburgh the best wishes. Tod into the family, even as an of himself and those precent, tz unele, so with the approval of both which the bridegroom suitably 10- Cliffe und Babbles he definitely plied. considered himself their on
10. As a
Among their present were noticed in Britain, unprecedented dumping Owing to expectations of tariffs mater of fact, one of his first rows, Mrs. Allan Cameron, R. M. Dyer, of foreign goods is occurring. For fortunately with a smaller dog. E. Stone, O. Champkin, Heign, manufacturers of all sorts are was because the Intter had had the Dennys, R. F. Forbes, Mr. and goods to Britain in order to evade hurrying enormous quantities of indelicnoy to draw the attention of Mr. S. H. Langaton, Mrs. B the tariff they see ahead. Mimie to the colour of his tongue. Logan, and Captain Goddard of Minnie was a delightful little urie-1.M.S. Empress of Japan. tocratic Fox who lived close enough The brids and bridegroom after to his place to enable him to pay chils, without being missed at home, and on the above, occasion (dear little girl) she had readily accept ed his explanation of having caten inadvertently some damson pie and they had parted the best of friends. To think that the other dog had called him a dago it just showed how necessary it was to avoid being too closely identified with Ted! Still, there were points about Ted. Of cold nights, for in. stance, to have a coat bike his, or in a scrap to have his small cars: Ho was grateful to Cliffe for fine, teeth, and to Bubbles for his apian- did physique, but botween them they'd managed to give him çars far too long for bis liking-a pecu licely painful form of Achilles-heel and much more more vulnerable. As an Airedale wit put it, to him ong day after showing them pretty thoroughly-Wrigley coral Even an Aberdeen who happened to overhear the remark laughed hearti- ly at this sally Of course, he could have squashed the Aberdeen by asking him if he had rend that delightful little treatise by an anonymous Dachshund (published pesthumously) enlica What, very Small Dog Should Know, but his people had always imprcised upon him the impropriety of twitting his follow dogs with their physical dis abilities, so he had. refrained. In any case the Airedale was still laughing at his own joke, and would have, helped the Aberdeen in the almost certain scrap that would hava. followed this particular bit of repartee,
wards left for Repulse Bay, where the honeymoon will be spent, the bride's going-away dress being blue suit with gray hat, shoes and gloves to match
and it always ended the same way, The challenge ha always took by feeling a strong hand gently on his head and hearing his master saying:
"Wake up, Bing, old chap You've been pulling and blow. ing and twitching your toes for the last ten minutes, and it's
- quite time you came upstairs
to bed
Sir Gilbert Vyse at the Birming ham Chamber of Commerce yes should to warned of the present terday urged that the Government enormously increase flow of imports.
from abroad recently was eleven The quantity of hosiery sent times the normal amount and enough to stock the country for nine or twelve months. This was happening also in the hardware trade, and a large variety of other manufactured goods
an increased imports were constituting In the prosent difficult times these
an immediate extra danger.
Nine months supply in one month must be paid for immediately in normally Yours, etc. stend of the money flowing out
CROSS RATE. Hong Kong, Nov. 3, 1011.
LOCAL COMPANY
SUMMONED
NOT REGISTERED WITH PROPER AUTHORITIES.
Then one, day & terrible thing happened-his master went away and Bing was left in charge of con- pleto strangers who, however, seen his name, which was very edd, s sil know all about him, including
he was quits sure he'd never sem either of them before. He was utterly disconfolate until he met
At Central Magistrady yesterday, Minnie quite by chance, who said Mr. Hun Pan Lai, manager of the to him, noticing bie, puckered bros: Great China Company, was sum What's the matter, Bing moned for having carried on busi- Minnie, I've lost my master ness as a limited liability concern Bing, don't be stupid I exwithout first having registered it pceb he's only gone away for &as auch with the proper authorities four months Was the house is Mr. Homce Lo, for the defence, a great upset, with boxes and pleaded oversight and a technical pucking all over the place jui brchch of the law. Case, Mr. Lo
before he went 1
In detailing the Yes, now I come to think of t, said that at the beginning the local
I com it was. "
Coface was constituted as a branch of And did he at the very last put the Great China Co., Ltd, a firm his hand under your chin nd which was properly registered at look straight into your eyes Shanghai, and it was the intention and say: Cheerio, old thing then to register the local office as look after yourself while I'm auch with the Registrar of Com away--it's not for long,
punies hero Why, yes that's just what bag pened."
"Well, Bing, that means her
Since, then Mr. Han decided to carry on business on his own and he had done so in the hame of the
Mag
Bing liked Sundays best, becaUBO wet or fins his master always took them all out for a long walk over. the hills. There was the tremen dous. excitement of the initial burat out of the house, and all the t tendant sniffing and blowing and jumping about. And then there. v coming back all right, so chea" Great Chinn Company, " were all the messages left at lamp-up!. posts, trees, shrubs, odd stones and And then she added with ex clumps of graes since, they wore quisite Chatni, "I haven't gan out at these-zomo rado others dafant, fex amorous, all intelli- gible, had to be replied to before the walk proper started. Occa sionally there was a row, but they usually, avoided a scrap until well under way as their master had been known to shut them up again and go for a walk by himself when they had precipitated trouble at the outset.
away, Bing
AfterDetective-Sergeant Donald had given evidence with re kard to a visit he made to tho offices of the Great China Company What a wonderful girl Minn where he found two chops with the was! She was quito fight, but word Limited" included, Mr. To was years afterwards that his repudiated any intention on the master came back, and when be part of the defendant to infringe returned, infortunately, Minnie a the Companies Ordinances Cliffe and Ted and Bubbles, wers A fino of 950 was inficted. not there to meet him. As a matter of fact at first Bing himself conldn't believe that this wás lás a puzzle until he woke up one tight master, and altogether it was rather after dinner from a particularly deep forty winks, with a strong hand gently on his head, and a void saying: A
The hills were delightful, and chasing rabbita perfect fun, especi- ally, bs none of them had ever caught one in their lives., Bing had somptines wondered what he would have done, it by any chance a rabWake up, Bing, old chap, you're bit, had run slap into him or fallen doad at his fact, An oft-recurring dream ofhis was connected with rabbits. He always caught them thon, and invariably laid them at Minnie's fect, when the same con- veration usually ensued
So you really expect me to bo lieve that you caught this
rabbit dan
Yes, I did really
Go on, you couldn't catch cat and I'm certain you can't
catch andra (Oostinued on next Column,)
PUBLIC EXECUTION IN
PEIPING
Paiping Oct. 29-Large crowds Bathered in Peiping
us young Communist named been pulling and blowing and Hon-mai, plio was only twitching your toes for the last years of age, driven in ten minutos, and it's quite time the execution ground and publicly you came upstairs to bed beheaded with a two handed swor Bing was on the rug in front of
The youthful criminal ep
the Bre. Slowly opening on or of having murdered veral farn.
his looked at his master, and in that
era bremss they refused to listen
glance comprehended all Bising to Communist speceber showed
he indulged an exquisite yawn, then utmost ccdiuess on the way to kis
long stretch during which he dooma
nearly lost his balanço, shook him
In anarer to the howls of poke self, and followed his master operation from the crowd he cried stairs to settle down to sleep onto that his death would be worthwhile. moro, Lo dreami përhape or Paradies' fit fed to the establishment of the Who knows
Soviet nyitem, in China,
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